Railway-rail joint.



No. 667,50I. Patented Feb. 5,1901. n. B. CHARLTON.

RAILWAY RAIL JOINT. (Applicatioh filed Aug. 13, 1900.

(No Model.)

Umrnn STATES PATENT Fries.

RICHARD B. CHARLTON, OF MILWAUKEE, \VISOONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONTINUOUS RAIL JOINT COMPANY OF AMERICA, OF NEW JERSEY.

RAlLWAY-RAIL JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,501, dated February 5, 1901. Application filed August 13, 1900. Serial No. 26,672. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. CHARLTON, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway-Rail Joints, of which the following is a description,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

I0 My invention relates to improved means for forming railway-joints.

The invention consists of the improved railway-plate individually and in combination, as shown, described, and claimed,or the equivalents thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the abutting ends of fragments of two railway-rails, showing my improved railwayplate in position in connection therewith.

Fig. 2 is a View of the under side of the abutting ends of two railway-rails with a pair of my improved plates in position thereon in the manner in which they are employed to make a railway-rail joint. Fig. 3 is a trans- 2 5 verse section of a railway-rail, showing in connection therewith the ends of two of my improved plates in position thereon. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of a railway-rail, showing two of my improved railway-plates in modi- 3o fied form in position thereon. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of a railway-rail with two of my improved plates in another modified form in position thereon.

My improved rail-joint plate is constructed integrally preferably of rolled metal in such elongated form as adapts it to fit against the sides of the abutting ends of two railwayrails, a pair of such plates being employed, one at each side of the rails, to make the railto joint.

My improved rail-joint plate consists of an upright member 6, a foot member '7, continuous from the upright member 6, a base member 8, continuous from the foot member 7 5 and turned under and disposed at a distance from the foot member, a toe member 9, projecting laterally in the plane of the base member 8 from the base member and from the foot member 7, and a girder 10, located medially o of the length of the plate and disposed in an upright position, substantially at a right angle to the base-plate 8 and the toe member 9. The upright member 6 is adapted, preferably, to hear at its upper edge against the under surface of the head of the rail R, and the foot member '7 is adapted to rest on the upper surface of the base of the rail, while the base member 8 is adapted to extend under the base of the rail, resting on the base member. The girder 10 is constructed by turning down a portion of the toe member 9 from its outer edge inwardly, so that the girder 10 is disposed in an upright plane substantially beneath the continuation of thefoot member 7 into the base member 8, whereby the girder becomes a reinforcing and strengthening member to the base member 8 without any of the material of the base member being used to construct the girder. By this means the rail ends are supported and held in place against depression by the united strength of the base member 8 in its complete form integrally and by its reinforcement by the girder 10, constructed of material extraneous to the base member-to wit,of the material of the too member 9, to which too member the girderis also connected and thereby strengthened at its ends by the integral webs ll 11.

In the form of rail-joint plate shown in Fig. 4 the base member 8 is corrugated, thereby forming longitudinal ribs on its surfaces,thus strengthening by means of this corrugated or ribbed construction the base member.

In the modified form of construction shown in Fig. 5 not only the base member 8' is corrugated or trussed longitudinally, but the toe member 9' is also corrugated or ribbed correspondingly on its under surface,thus strengthening the construction and providing an expanded ribbed or roughened surface adapted to engage the surface of the wood tie on which it is placed and prevent the lateral movement or displacement of the plate and its supported rail.

What I claim as my invention is 5 l. A rail-joint plate for railway-rails, constructed integrally of metal, comprising an upright member, a laterally-extending foot member, an under inwardly-extending base member, a toe member projecting laterally I00 from the foot member and the base member in the plane of the base member, and a ber in the plane of the base member, and a girder medially of the length of the plate 15 formed of a turned-down portion of the toe member and disposed below the plane of the base member and substantially below the line of junction of the base and the toe members.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature :0 in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD B. CHARLTON.

Witnesses:

G. T. BENEDICT, ANNA V. FAUST. 

